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DavidW · Feb 12, 2015

Thanks. (Doesn't it say Queens Bays in the top right though?)

Andreas · Feb 12, 2015

Yeah, sorry.

All the best

Andreas

MarkN · Feb 12, 2015

phylo_roadking said:

David, you should take a look at the greatly extended CS threads on here where I chased down a lot more than the few queries we both started out with years ago now!

The 3.7" howitzer on the early cruisers seems to have been a Vickers' propreitary design....but the 3" howitzer is almost transparent to the historical record. It's first recognised fitment seems actually to have been the Churchill MkI hull gun...where it came from, who designed it etc. has been lost to time.

There was no Valentine CS tank manufactured...

But in the Antipodes, New Zealand were sent some Matilda CS to use alongside their Valentines...so they took the howitzers out of them and managed to fit them into Valentines to give them an all-Valentine force to prevent any spares' issues. THEN they sold the surplus Matildas to the Australians

There is also some debate on the smoke vs HE loads. We know from Gerry Chester that the smoke component of the Churchill MkI's loadout for the hull gun was a moveable feast...sometimes more, sometimes less depending on requirements....but in the Churchill MkI manual it specifies ALL H.E.

(The trunions/mounts of the 2pdr and the 3" howitzer were apparently identical; elsewhere during the war, hull guns and turret 2pdrs on Churchill MkIs were swapped about...)

It looks as if the 3.7" howitzer fired the same rounds as the WWI era 3.7" mountain howitzer - but details for the 3" ordnance are not available
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CAB 102/347 Tank and Anti-Tank Guns and Ammunition, 1935-1943, D Hay, Narrative used in the compilation of Design and Development of Weapons

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